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A true daughter of Macon County, Jamie Dallas is very happy to be back home. Dallas, one of the last babies to actually be born at Macon County General, started work in her new position as director of the Senior Center of Macon County on Monday, April 14.

“When I was a little girl, I promised I’d never come back here to this little place,” said Jamie Dallas, who graduated high school in Tacoma, Washington.

Every three years, Jamie’s parents – Carol and James Jenkins – brought their family home to visit grandparents Truman and Mae Shaw, and Uncle Jimmy Shaw.

Regretfully, the Lafayette city council decided to terminate Lieutenant Bryon Satterfield from the police department at their regular meeting on April 1, 2008. Satterfield, who served on the Lafayette Police Department since 1990, was let go at the recommendation of Police Chief Jerry Dallas, due to permanent medical restrictions stemming from two traffic accidents that Satterfield was involved in while on duty.

The first accident occurred in December, 2006 while Lt. Satterfield was blocking traffic during the Christmas parade. A drunk driver was able to get through the traffic barricade and hit Satterfield’s parked patrol car – which the lieutenant was sitting in – head on.

More grant money to clean storm debris out of Macon County’s creeks will be on its way from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), District Conservationist Phillip Dixon announced on Friday, April 4.
Read more: Additonal USDA Grant for Creek Clean-Up

The first of 44 FEMA mobile homes that have been approved to come into Macon County finally started arriving on Sunday, March 30. Four mobile homes from Selma, Alabama arrived at Hillsdale Estates, on Highway 10 South, on Sunday, and four more, which will be set up on private property, arrived on Akersville Road on Monday.
Read more: FEMA Housing Arrives